After a long New Year's Eve, New Year's Day was a quiet day of napping and doing laundry. However, today was very busy. Waking up early and getting the subway to Little Italy we strolled through a fairly run-down neighborhood of restaurants, while also getting ...

... onion mixture which was terrible. :( Pictures of the two lions at the foot of the library. Patience and Fortitude, Patience guards the south side of the library's steps and Fortitude sits on the North side of the library steps. They were named in the 1930s by Mayor LaGuardia for the qualities he thought New Yorkers would need during the depression. Sadly I thought they were guarding the East and West side of ...

... arrived at my proper gate, 90% of the people on my flight were going home.

We began boarding pretty soon after I got to the gate. The airplane was huge and luxurious compared to the little plane I had been on for the first leg. I sat next to an American couple who were with a larger church group all traveling together. They were polite and kind and we were all traveling to India for the first time. There was plenty of overheard space as well as space ...

... look and simultaneously headed for their desk. On the 10 sec walk we discussed the chances of us getting on this flight and agreed slim to none would be about right. This flight too had been delayed for hours and the seats for our gate were packed. Here's the miracle we got on the flight at last call, while our would have been fellow passengers could just stand by wondering why in hell they themselves haven't at least asked the desk clerk, being the same airline, same destination. My ...

... very glad of my coat even though I had no jumper on underneath. We went over the Manhattan Bridge and again the view was …wow what a view. It was beautiful.

We finished the tour at 8.30pm and had Burger King for Dinner; It’s amazing that the menus are completely different to Burger King/Hungry Jacks at home. Geoff was trying to work out why we had such a big serve of fries and such a large drink, then realised that the locals only buy the small meal, we were ordering ...